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July 23, 2008 Post

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The .ME Registry has released some early stats covering the opening days of public registration for the extension. .ME is technically the country code for Montenegro but it has been re-introduced as a globally available extension geared to personal users. The registry said 

50,000 .ME domains were registered in the first 48 hours after the extension opened to the public July 17. 30,000 had previously been registered in the land rush period so total regs hit 80,000 by the end of the day July 18.

50% of the registrants were from the United States. 11% came from the United Kingdom, 9% from Germany and 5% from Canada. No other country accounted for more than 3% of registrations. 

Though registry partner Godaddy suffered through a lot of registration glitches that upset customers, Afilias

who handles back end operations for the .ME registry, said there were no problems on their end as they handled .ME requests from over 60 registrars around the world. GoDaddy was the most active registrar in promoting .ME, so a lot of those seeking .ME domains went to their site but their systems were not up to handling the volume. Smaller registrars, like Dynadot, reported no problems processing registrations in a timely manner. 

Moniker has announced that the silent online auctions they run in conjunction with popular trade shows will move to the SnapNames.com platform effective with two sales next month that will be tied to the Internext Expo in Hollywood, Florida and the Affiliate Summit in Boston

The Internext silent auction will run August 7-14 while the Affiliate Summit sale will run from August 10-21. Bidders will no longer need special access codes. They can simply log into their SnapNames account where they will find all auctions closing at 3:15pm (Eastern time) on the closing day of each event. 

Moniker released a list of top candidates for their Affiliate Summit auction today with Clients.com, Trades.net and CreditCheck.us among the names highlighted. The final catalog is to be released soon. Moniker and SnapNames are both Oversee.net companies.
(Posted July 23, 2008)


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